reasons - British leave, compromise/agreement, control will be lost if they don't do something about itresults - Arabs have very little coast and very little share of the land, thought that all of their land was worthless

Arab-Israeli War/Six-Day War - geographical impacts

Palestinians lost a ton of land as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip

West Bank/Gaza Strip

"occupied" territories in Israel, originally to be Palestinian lands under the partition

1. Palestinians - early settlers, homeland was Palestine, ancestors that lived here2. Jews - ancestors also settled here, believed that Palestine was their holy land, they have lived here for centuries

Mandate

land to be governed by outside power

Partition

a division into separate parts

Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) - location, importance

stretches from modern day Iraq to Israel; important because it was the birthplace of both agriculture and civilization

Tigris/Euphrates - geographical impacts, location, advantages

1. location - Iraq2. geographical impacts/advantages - fertile plain,urban centers, irrigation makes them have better growing and more successful crops, electricity, freshwater provides water to drink and the continuation of an agricultural society